Is your self-worth really equal to your net worth? Do you agree with that? I used to think that. In this episode I share a personal story -- my journey on how I became what I am today. Self-worth and self-love, this is the journey of a lifetime. I truly believe that this is a journey that all of us go on, and we struggle with different things at different stages. We accept certain things, we recognize certain things, but the love affair with yourself, is the journey of a lifetime. 

One of the things that I'm so passionate about is talking about self-worth, because this has been a lifelong journey for me. I am 47 years old, and 47 years is what it has taken me to learn that everything -- whatever it is that you want in your life, whether it is love, whether it is money, whether it is a job -- everything comes down to your self-worth. It comes down to how you feel about you, how you feel you are worth in the world, the value that you put on yourself. And one of the places that we tend to give away or leak our power is in relationships. 

So today I am giving you my top 3 tips for self worth, when you're in a relationship.

Watch the VIDEO of this episode on my YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/sandrachuma One of the questions that I get asked the most is, “How do you get your glowing skin?” Okay, I am not a beauty blogger. I do not play a beauty blogger on TV, or on YouTube for that matter. But given the number of people who've asked me that question, I thought I'd share with you my 5 Top Tips in less than five minutes of How to get Glowing Skin.

There's so much conversation right now about self-care, and yet there's really very little conversation about self-worth. I am going to make a bold statement about this: Whatever you have in your life right now -- whatever money is in your bank account, whatever your body looks like, whatever it is that you want in terms of career, in terms of relationship, whatever you have in your life, is your self worth expressed. It is your self worth. And very few people talk about that. 

In this episode, I want to share the 3 things in our lives and upbringing that ultimately impacts our level of self-worth.

In part 2 of my conversation with Radiation Oncologist Dr. Katie Deming, she talks about how fear and worry affects the immune system and the healing process of your body, and how stress contributes to physical illness. To address these aspects, Katie shares how she helps her patients gain the power to start healing themselves through letting go of stress and learning self-love. She gives her insights about what self love truly is, the misconceptions and cultural norms that influence our upbringing and understanding of self-care, and the importance of REST and creating space for yourself. 

Katie also talks about her brand MAKEMERRY -- specially crafted intimates for women with sensitive skin (https://shopmakemerry.com/)

This week, we welcome our guest expert, Dr. Katie Deming. Katie is a Radiation Oncologist. She believes in serving as a guide through the cancer journey of her patients and prides herself on educating, helping them make good decisions, and providing high-quality care throughout treatment. 

Katie is also the founder of MAKEMERRY (https://shopmakemerry.com/), a brand where she has also developed a collection of intimates for women who experience skin sensitivity due to radiation treatments for breast cancer. 

This episode is Part 1 of our conversation where Katie talks about her experience as an Oncologist and how she helps her patients. She shares valuable tips on how to manage fear and process emotions. 

Watch out for Part 2 next week where Katie talks more about self-care.

I literally was raised in a mud hut with no running water, and no electricity. The aspiration for me growing up was that I would get an education and I would make something of myself. What I lacked in material things I more than made up for in terms of the love and the attention that I got from my family.

One thing that my grandmother would always say to me as a little girl growing up, every time she saw an airplane flying up high, she'd say to me, “Sandra, do you see that airplane up there? One day, one day you're going to be on that airplane going overseas.” 

When we were on the bus, she'd be pointing out all these beautiful houses with big yards and swimming pools and she'd say to me, “Sandra, one day, one day, you're going to live in one of those houses.”

And so that was the story that I grew up with this belief that one day I was going to live in this house in a neighborhood and one day I was going to get on an airplane. That was what drove me to create something of myself. 

I worked hard. I managed to work three jobs to put myself through university, and I would tell myself that I would be happy one day when I have a successful career. So I worked harder and harder, and eventually I got a degree and then I got my first job, but it didn’t stop there. 

“I'll be happy when I get my first promotion.”

“I'll be happy when I'm a director.”

“I'll be happy when I make $100,000.”

“I'll be happy when I start my own business.”

“I'll be happy when I make my first million.”

“I'll be happy when I make my first eight figures.”

I got to all of that. Everything that I checked off the list, I'd get there where I thought I would be happy, and I still was not happy. 

I found myself sitting in my doctor's office. I was pushing myself continually to achieve ‘happiness’, I had now literally worked myself to the ground. 

I want this to be an opportunity for you to ask yourself, “Am I happy? Am I happy in the life that I have right now? Or am I chasing this one day, one day that is a moving target that I will never get to?”

In this episode, I would like to share everything I have learned through my experience in search of ‘happiness’, and seven things that each of us should be doing every single day to create a life we love.

I want to share something that happened to me when I was at university. Something I think we often do, especially as women, is apologize for ourselves. I was at university overwhelmed by ‘imposter syndrome’ because I was already 40 when I studied Journalism in Columbia University. I felt like I didn't really belong, as a 40 year old going back to school after having been out of school for so long. 

All of the people in my class have all been journalists at stations and networks and have won awards. I was there, and I didn't even know quite honestly how to use a camera in manual mode. I felt completely like a fish out of water, and I think that showed to this particular professor. His name was Professor David Klatell. 

In this one particular class, he asked a question. And I remember thinking to myself, “I don't want to be the only one looking around the room,” and thinking that I don't want to be the one who's seen as the teacher’s pet. Professor Klatell could see that I wanted to respond, so he called me. 

I said, “Well, I want to respond, but I want to give everybody else a chance.” 

In that moment, he said, “Does everybody else have a tongue and can they speak? Can everybody else raise their hands if they have something to say? So what makes you think that you need to police them when they can speak or when they cannot speak? If they want to speak, they'll raise their hand and they will speak.” 

He then said something that was so profound to me that has stayed with me. 

He said, “Never, ever apologize for showing up fully as yourself. Never apologize and make yourself small to make other people feel comfortable. Never apologize for taking up space. Anytime you find yourself in a room that you want to be in, know that you belong there. It doesn't matter how you got in the room, the fact that you are in the room means you belong.”

This week we are welcoming our first ever guest in the WORTHY podcast -- Wealth & Abundance Coach Emily King. Emily is an MBA graduate, a certified NLP practitioner, and also a certified Time Line Therapist.

Emily shares her journey just after she had graduated her MBA thinking that she had it all figured out. Unfortunately, things didn’t turn out as she had planned and she found herself in debt, and no sense of fulfillment. 

Despite her situation, Emily had always known that she was meant to do something more.

In this episode, we learn about how Emily went from over $20K in student debt to $100K in savings within just 2 years, to building a half-a-million dollar dream home! She shares her experience, strategies, insights and breakthroughs on the topic of money and the psychology behind it. 

Don’t miss this inspiring conversation about money, mindset, and manifestation from the amazing Emily King.

We are now in the home stretch of the last quarter of the year, and I wanted to share with you 9 tips to make these last 90 days, the best 90 days of the year. I'm going to start with a confession, though. This was about the point in time in the past, when I would put my life in cruise control. I've kind of convinced myself that there are only a few more months left in the year, so I'll start in January, and I would cruise through this last quarter. 

And yet, this really was a waste of a whole three months because what I can tell you is that in 90 days, you can literally change your life. You can literally achieve so much in 90 days. 

These tips I will share aren't just for the last 90 days of the year, it's for any 90 days of the year. 

If you've ever heard of Parkinson's Law, it says that the work expands to fit the time. So if you have a year to achieve something, it'll probably take you a year. If you're given three months to achieve something, you will figure out how to achieve that goal within three months. 

It's really changing your mindset, changing how you set your goals -- from annualized goal setting, to really doubling down on making every day every moment matter, and by doing that using 90 day cycles. So I'm going to share with you nine tips on how you can make these next 90 days the best 90 days.